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La Rochelle vs Zebre

What the model says about this fixture, at either ground and at a neutral one, with the record behind it. Ratings as at 2026-10-19.

Who wins, and where it is played
La Rochelle at home39-16 average
La Rochelle 90.1%draw 2.5%7.4% Zebre
Zebre at home22-33 average
Zebre 19.8%draw 2.5%77.7% La Rochelle
Neutral ground37-18 average
La Rochelle 83.8%draw 2.5%13.7% Zebre

Each figure is 5,000 simulations of this fixture. The score is where those runs are centred, not a likely scoreline — a rugby result is spread far too widely for any single one to be likely.

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How the runs finished

Winning margin across 5,000 simulations of this fixture. Bars right of the centre are La Rochelle wins; the faded bars at each end hold everything beyond 75 points.

Margin percentiles

  • Middle 8 in 10
  • Middle half
  • Median
  • Level
  • Average

Eight runs in ten finished between 1 La Rochelle and 40 La Rochelle, half of them between 5 La Rochelle and 27 La Rochelle, with the middle run at 14 La Rochelle.

Those are gaps rather than scorelines. How much scoring the match produces is drawn separately — between 34 and 79 points in eight runs out of ten — so one bar covers many scores. The middle run above is 29-15 on a tight afternoon and 40-26 on an open one.

Why La Rochelle are favoured

How the model arrives at the chance of La Rochelle winning. It starts at an even 50%, and each line below adds to that or takes from it, in percentage points (pp): a bar to the right helps La Rochelle, a bar to the left helps Zebre.

Even match50.0%
Rating gap+41.6 pp

La Rochelle 1820, Zebre 1071 — 750 points, favouring La Rochelle

Venue+3.1 pp

La Rochelle are at home

Form and context-4.6 pp

Recent results, past meetings between the two sides, and days of rest. It has a limit, so it can nudge the rating but never overrule it.

La Rochelle win90.1%
Zebre win7.4%
Draw2.5%

Head to head

La Rochelle3–0–1Zebre

4 meetings, 2015 to 2019 · La Rochelle by 5.0 on average

DateMatchCompetitionVenue
2019-01-19Zebre 10–22 La RochelleEuropean Challenge CupStadio Sergio Lanfranchi
2019-01-11La Rochelle 32–12 ZebreEuropean Challenge CupStade Marcel-Deflandre
2015-12-19Zebre 25–5 La RochelleEuropean Challenge CupStadio Sergio Lanfranchi
2015-12-11La Rochelle 27–19 ZebreEuropean Challenge CupStade Marcel-Deflandre

None of this feeds the forecast: both ratings already contain these results.

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